RE:RE:Valid summary of recent Pasha activity from Equity Guru... HawkII wrote: HipKnowS**t strikes again. Posts a paid promo LOL. Read the disclaimer in the article "Full Disclosure: Pasha Brands is an equity.guru marketing client"
Unlike Hawk, I have found that Chris Parry / Equity Guru presents useful analysis and deals with verifiable facts. Here is Equity Guru business model:
Canada’s smallcap stock scene is, to paraphrase the great Hunter S. Thompson, “a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side.”
There are many people who write about penny stocks and few do so for free. Most will take a fat cheque, or a stock certificate, to say endless streams of nice things about questionable companies. They’ll hype a stock they own, and slap down fine print that says, “Don’t trust what we’re telling you here, because we’re on the take.”
To be sure, the team at Equity.Guru doesn’t work for free, but we have a business model that treads the middle ground between newspaper and marketing agency. We sell our attention, not our favour.
With over 6,000 stocks on the Canadian exchange at a price of penny or less, any company that wants to stick its head above the crowd needs to find legitimacy in the eyes of investors, and advertorial bullshit doesn’t cut it.
So we don’t do advertorial bullshit. We stand behind our analysis and reporting. We write about what’s interesting, we don’t pull punches, and we’ll take a company out at the ankles if we believe they’re lying to investors.
Here’s the kicker: We’ll do that to our clients too, if warranted.
Before any company signs on to a marketing program with Equity.Guru, we tell them they have a higher standard to attain. Like the little league coach making his son run extra laps to justify his spot on the team, if we’re going to say nice things about a client company, it has to be clear they deserve the cheer.
Because we’re not soldiers for hire. We’re journalists doing what journalists should do.